Spielberg fights mightily to keep that randomness under control, and usually succeeds.
If "Ready Player One" is tedious at times, it's also oodles of fun at others
Ready Player One is like a two hour serving of Frosted Flakes with every toy in the box. The pop culture references are hurled nonstop.
By a whisker, Spielberg wins the race against his own material.
Eventually, "Ready Player One" becomes the very thing its characters admire, a preponderance of commercial entertainment smashed together into a singularity of blockbuster chaos.
Crystal Skull wasn’t any worse than any other Indy movie, change my mind
Half in the Bag is gonna be good.spoiler (click to show/hide)Mike will probably like it.[close]
Would I be labelled a literal nazi by watching this?100% rate of appropriating blue hedgehog culture
Watched Tomb Raider last week, watching Pacific Ripoff next week, will not be watching RPO
Of this I am painfully awareWatched Tomb Raider last week, watching Pacific Ripoff next week, will not be watching RPO
You are insane
It was fine. :goty
Resetera: :crybaby
Would I be labelled a literal nazi by watching this?
Would I be labelled a literal nazi by watching this?
Would I be labelled a literal nazi by watching this?
Why would you not see it, are you boycotting Jewish filmmakers? :thinking
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The average movie goer is a generation of people who grew up and think The Sandlot and Hook were good movies. These are not very discerning people with good taste. I'm sure a good chunk of them will eat this Spielbergian gruel up.Wow I feel that perfectly explains the current movie goer. Wow.
Weirdest cameo was seeing an ad for Borderlands... does that series really have that much mainstream cachet? I always saw it as one of those dime-a-dozen forgettable 360 shooters.
Weirdest cameo was seeing an ad for Borderlands... does that series really have that much mainstream cachet? I always saw it as one of those dime-a-dozen forgettable 360 shooters.
Weirdest cameo was seeing an ad for Borderlands... does that series really have that much mainstream cachet? I always saw it as one of those dime-a-dozen forgettable 360 shooters.
Borderlands 2 sold about 13 million copies. Also, it's a very good game.
Handsome Jack is still a one note villain.
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Something else I gotta point out was the audience. This was neckbeard central. :lol One dude next to us kept talking to his friend about video games right up until the trailers started and then would just mark the fuck out anytime a video game reference popped up on the screen. :lol
Now spoiler talk:spoiler (click to show/hide)-OK, so I get that all the references are because of the author. But in terms of the story, I don't understand why any of the teenagers playing in the Oasis would know and/or care about shit from decades before they were born.
-That goes double for the music. So much stuff from the 80s. Really? That's the stuff the kids are into? LOL.
-The worst part of the movie is when Wade's aunt and her shitty boyfriend get blown up. He seems mildly upset that she's dead for about 30 seconds. Felt like something was missing there. Is it because she didn't treat him well? Dunno because it only gets mentioned like once before the movie ends.[close]
Just saw it and enjoyed it. It is full of pop culture references, some even delivered as lines or at key moments in the plot, but the fact that the players are in on the cheese makes it acceptable and work in a way.
Now spoiler talk:spoiler (click to show/hide)-OK, so I get that all the references are because of the author. But in terms of the story, I don't understand why any of the teenagers playing in the Oasis would know and/or care about shit from decades before they were born.
-That goes double for the music. So much stuff from the 80s. Really? That's the stuff the kids are into? LOL.
-The worst part of the movie is when Wade's aunt and her shitty boyfriend get blown up. He seems mildly upset that she's dead for about 30 seconds. Felt like something was missing there. Is it because she didn't treat him well? Dunno because it only gets mentioned like once before the movie ends.[close]
This is a problem in the book as well.
If I felt like making an excuse for it, I'd say it's that culture has hit an endpoint and is already just recycling previous media, OR that the contest to win the OASIS is so culturally penetrative that this is what most media venues choose to play because everyone is looking for insight and clues all the time.
Half in the Bag is gonna be good.spoiler (click to show/hide)Mike will probably like it.[close]
Mike will love it.
The Shining part was great if you knew what it was and what was coming, but there were some people in the audience who didn't (like my wife) who were just :confused, lol.Now spoiler talk:spoiler (click to show/hide)-OK, so I get that all the references are because of the author. But in terms of the story, I don't understand why any of the teenagers playing in the Oasis would know and/or care about shit from decades before they were born.
-That goes double for the music. So much stuff from the 80s. Really? That's the stuff the kids are into? LOL.
-The worst part of the movie is when Wade's aunt and her shitty boyfriend get blown up. He seems mildly upset that she's dead for about 30 seconds. Felt like something was missing there. Is it because she didn't treat him well? Dunno because it only gets mentioned like once before the movie ends.[close]
This is a problem in the book as well.
If I felt like making an excuse for it, I'd say it's that culture has hit an endpoint and is already just recycling previous media, OR that the contest to win the OASIS is so culturally penetrative that this is what most media venues choose to play because everyone is looking for insight and clues all the time.
It's definitely not just for the contest and it was mentioned (in the movie, at least) that most people gave up on that. Also another thing that comes to mind:
Why the hell did the entire real-world setting take place in the same part of town in Ohio? The whole world is playing this game that has taken over everything and yet everyone just so happens to live in the same place and even the big bads' HQ is there too? :dogespoiler (click to show/hide)And why didn't Wade get with his buddy 'H'? They were clearly way more compatible with each other.[close]
Weirdest cameo was seeing an ad for Borderlands... does that series really have that much mainstream cachet? I always saw it as one of those dime-a-dozen forgettable 360 shooters.
As much as I wish it wasn't true: Yes? We know you're an out of touch weeb. Why is this somehow surprising for you?
I just remembered i've owned this book for like 7 years but have never read it
My wife took a picture of me in front of the scale F91 Gundam Head outside the Bandai store at the Metreon in like 2004.